Scanning The Current Balance Sheet For Performing-arts Center

July 12, 1991|By JACK ZINK, Theater Writer

The total income for the Broward Center for the Performing Arts during the musical The Phantom of the Opera`s 16-week stay was $1,299,861.31 from all sources. That is about $62,000 less than originally projected, primarily because some concession areas were not completed and because many patrons found parking outside of the district`s new garage.

The center`s second attraction, A Chorus Line, resulted in a $99,991.02 income.

Both were major tours brought in by PTG-Florida Inc. The center`s first attempt at producing its own events hasn`t been as successful as hoped, primarily because the Sizzlin` Saturdays concert series was supposed to take place in the Intimate Theater but has been moved to the New River Room, a banquet hall (the 590-seat playhouse is not yet finished). Management expected a net loss as a trade-off for keeping the center active during the summer; estimates are that the series` losses will be about $13,000 after Saturday`s final concert by Debbie Spring.

One of the Sizzlin` concerts was bumped into the main theater lobby because of a scheduling snafu. The center`s caterer booked a private function into the New River Room two weeks before, but it wasn`t on the master program schedule. Although the band Night Court went on in the lobby, many concert patrons became frustrated in the confusion over what was taking place where, and left.

IT`S `KISMET`

A revival of the musical Kismet remains confirmed for the Royal Palm Dinner Theatre in October. But artistic director Bob Bogdanoff now says that a musical revue of composer/lyricists Robert Wright and George Forrest will open ``out of town`` before a final decision is made to move it to Jan`s Upstairs Cabaret.

Bogdanoff will try out the material in an arts-school production in North Florida in the weeks ahead. The revue includes the duo`s best-known adapted scores from The Song of Norway (original music by Edvard Grieg), Kismet (Borodin) and Anya (Rachmaninoff). But the duo also composed their own material for The Love Doctor and Kean in 1959-61, and spent plenty of time whipping up original songs for Hollywood movies throughout their careers.

And although there has been some posturing for position between Wright/ Forrest and Maury Yeston over top credits for the current hit Grand Hotel, there will be a few selections from that musical, too.

`THE WIND` EXTENDED

The classic drama Inherit the Wind has been extended at the new Main Street Playhouse in Miami Lakes, near the Miami International Airport. The show is the first at that address for Pyke-Lauzado Productions, which moved from its former Hialeah digs after several years.